Major Increase in EHRI Portal Collection Descriptions

The EHRI Portal, that offers access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond, is one of  the project’s important tools. EHRI is proud to announce that as a result of collaborative hard work with institutions that hold important Holocaust collections no less than 50,000 new descriptions and 25,000 updates were ingested in the EHRI portal last month. Via automated data ingest we have been able to increase the number of collection descriptions in the EHRI Portal by 17 %. Our thanks go to all institutions and colleagues that have been involved in this process.

Neringa Latvytė from EHRI partner the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) in Lithuania presents a unique artefact from the flea market in Vilnius: A small prayer book in Polish, which tells us the unusual story about perceptions of a traumatic past.

Photos and article by Neringa Latvytė

Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age. What’s New?

Date: Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Location: Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The conference takes place in the Auditorium of the museum. 

Duration: 9.15  –  18.30

Dear colleagues and friends,

Last year I was deeply saddened by Conny Kristel’s death. She was a wonderful colleague, truly a model of conscientiousness and commitment. I am guessing that you all know a good project that was hampered (or worse) because egos stood in the way. Not so with EHRI under Conny. How befitting that the first Conny Kristel Fellowships will be dispensed this year.

Given this history, it was with a mixture of excitement and trepidation that I began my tenure as EHRI’s new Project Director on March 1. But there is no worry. Having been involved in several EHRI undertakings, my sense is this is a gathering of experts who are not only committed to a good cause, but who also treat each other well. And they know and feel that the work is all the more important today - a time with so much bad news about distortion and denial of the Holocaust.

Holocaust Studies and its Social Setting. Challenges and Trends

Venue: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Wednesday, 3 July 2019 | 9.15 – 18.30 hrs

Read the report of the conference.

Repatriation Efforts – Luxembourg State Policy Towards Jews during World War II

The author of this EHRI Document Blog post, Jakub Bronec from the University of Luxembourg, gives an insight into the repatriation attempts of Luxembourg concerning Jews during World War II.

The Yerusha Project is a digital humanities initiative of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe to create an online hub of information regarding European Jewish archival heritage.

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EHRI Conference 'Holocaust Studies and its Social Setting: Challenges and Trends'

3 July 2019  |  Venue: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Clio Institute in Budapest welcomes papers of at least 8.000-10.000 words based on primary archival research on the following topics to be published in Clio Research Papers:

- ghettoisation and deportation in the countryside and in the annexed territories (Carpatho-Ruthenia, Northern-Transylvania)
- the role of local administration in the implementation of anti-Jewish measures
- the social history of the countryside in the

Call for Papers

Marking of Jews During the Holocaust

Yad Vashem Summer workshop for Scholars 8-11 July 2019 in in Jerusalem. Application deadline 15 April 2019.